{"id":50362,"date":"2025-10-29T13:32:50","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T13:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/29\/fleetwood-macs-rumours-received-a-boost-from-glee-in-2011\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T13:32:50","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T13:32:50","slug":"fleetwood-macs-rumours-received-a-boost-from-glee-in-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/29\/fleetwood-macs-rumours-received-a-boost-from-glee-in-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Fleetwood Mac’s ‘Rumours’ Received a Boost From Glee in 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\n\tFleetwood Mac<\/a>\u2019s <\/em>Rumours<\/a> was an enormous hit when it hit record-store shelves on February 4, 1977<\/em>, and so in many ways, it still is. <\/em>Barry Manilow Live, Linda Ronstadt\u2019s <\/em>Simple Dreams, and the soundtrack to Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson\u2019s <\/em>A Star Is Born were also Number One albums that same year, but while they\u2019ve largely faded from our collective memory, <\/em>Rumours is bigger than ever.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

\n\tIt\u2019s the single most streamed record from the 1970s, a perpetual presence in the Billboard 200, and vinyl pressing plants continue to churn out new copies to keep up with the relentless demand. Classic rock radio, meanwhile, plays <\/em>Rumours songs like \u201cThe Chain,\u201d \u201cGo Your Own Way,\u201d \u201cDreams,\u201d \u201cDon\u2019t Stop,\u201d and \u201cYou Make Loving Run\u201d on a seemingly never-ending loop.<\/em><\/p>\n

\n\tTeens all over the globe continue to discover the doomed love stories at the center of <\/em>Rumours, and it\u2019s one of the few albums they can enjoy with their parents and often even their grandparents.<\/em><\/p>\n

\n\tTo celebrate the upcoming 50th anniversary of <\/em>Rumours, writer Alan Light dove deep into the saga and chatted with young artists and fans for his book <\/em>Don\u2019t Stop: Why We (Still) Love Fleetwood Mac\u2019s Rumours. It hits bookstores on November 5 (click here to pre-order<\/a>). One chapter dives deep into the TV<\/em> show<\/em> Glee<\/a>, which brought new fans to <\/em>Rumours when they aired an episode built around the songs in 2011.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cI have a very complicated relationship with <\/em>Glee,\u201d says NYU theater student Tess Rechtweg. \u201cI kind of hate it, but it was a major part of my childhood. I started watching it a little bit too young, and I didn\u2019t really understand anything. I just thought \u2018Oh, fun songs. A lot goes on. Everyone\u2019s pregnant for some reason.\u2019 As I got older, I really started watching it and it introduced me to music I hadn\u2019t known before.\u201d Read the exclusive excerpt below.<\/em><\/p>\n

\n\tWhen Glee<\/a> <\/em>launched on the Fox network in 2009, it definitely wasn\u2019t a show for everyone. None of its six seasons ranked in the top thirty in the ratings. But it had one of the highest ad revenues of any TV series, because it was unlike anything else on the air, and the audience that did watch it \u2014 largely kids and teenagers \u2014 was intensely loyal, embracing the nickname \u201cGleeks.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cI hate to say this,\u201d says Oberlin student Viv Tullis, \u201cbut a lot of the good music that I listened to, I started listening to because I would listen to the Glee <\/em>version.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tGlee <\/em>was created by Ryan Murphy (the force behind American Horror Story<\/em>, American Crime Story<\/em>, Nip\/Tuck<\/em>, and many other <\/em>series \u2014 The New Yorker <\/em>magazine once called him \u201cthe most powerful <\/em>man in modern television\u201d) along with his partners Brad Falchuk <\/em>and Ian Brennan; Brennan had initially conceived of Glee <\/em>as <\/em>a film.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe show, which ran until 2015, centered on New Directions, the glee club at the fictional William McKinley High School in Lima, Ohio. The group competes as a show choir while its members deal with such heavy issues as sexuality, race, teen pregnancy, and relationships.<\/p>\n

\n\tAt the center of Glee <\/em>each week were multiple musical performances, which the record business quickly discovered could be a huge promotional boost to old material. The competition format, and thematic focus of each episode, meant that early shows were often organized around musical categories (ballads, duets, love songs) or occasionally around the catalog of individual artists (Lady Gaga, Britney Spears).<\/p>\n

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